Ultimate Solo Class - Hunter?

[Baal]

I'm curious.

I'm playing a Shaman Orc right now. He started out feeling very strong. However, now at level 11, I'm feeling very weak. And when it comes down to it, I really dont enjoy totems one bit.

I prefer to solo, and from what I've heard, Hunters are the best. I just want to make sure. I'm looking, basically, for the best solo class in terms of being able to handle most quests by myself, being able to survive, and being able to kill well.

Is there another class that can equal the Hunter, or is what I hear correct? I've stayed away from them before because it seems everyone and their mother, father, sister, uncle, brother, aunt, dog, cat, and hamster has one... However, maybe it's the class for me...


*edit - so yeah, let's say I want to be able to kill efficiently, I want to be able to survive, and I want to be able to take care of most of the things I need... Who do you pick to best fit that?

[Haggis The Red]

Yep hunters rock in solo. All classes (noteablely druids and pally's) can solo well, but Hunters seem to reign surpreme. Get A defensive pet (I, as always, suggest a boar.) and spec BM and you be set. You got grat DPS and your own personal pet, and once you learn FD you almost always have an out of a bad situation.

[FodderCannoned]

warlock rivals a hunter for grinding, and is alot faster than a druid or a pally

[Haggis The Red]

Well for Druid and pally I was talking mainly surviabilty.

Locks maybe it's because of his low level, or I'm playing him to much like a hunter, but mine seems rather slow. And the VW can't seem to match my pig in tanking.

[LeTHaL_BaNaNa]

warlock rivals a hunter for grinding, and is alot faster than a druid or a pally

Druids are actually quite fast in grinding when you spec feral. Especially because you don't need mana, and you can heal yourself every 2/3 mobs and you'll nearly never run short on mana.

[Icefrost]

If you want a true Jack of all Trades that will be taken into groups 200% more than a hunter, it's the druid you are looking for.

[Steerpike]

Yes hunters are good soloers, the pet means you have a ready made party and it does exactly what you tell it to do. I agree druids are also good, earlier today I pulled two mobs 3 levels higher than me with my feral druid and won. My hunter would not have survived that before he got FD, you get a lot misses and deflects with ranged weapons once you start taking on things more than two levels higher.

[Durakk]

Keep the shaman for a while longer, they are a tough class to get to grips with but once you do you wont regret the time invested. An ele/ench shaman is very simular to druids as others have suggested.
Totems are what make a shaman, they can be very good or horribly mana in-efficient unless you use them properly.. Its learning your class (as with any class)

At lvl 11 you wont be able to tell what any class is really like.. wait till 20 when you start to get a few class skills and build a few talents up before you make a choice to change character.

Hybrids (druid/shaman) have all the skills you need to solo, they have pretty good damage output and can heal, have good buffs and de-buffs and get out of trouble pretty quick.
Shaman can 2 hand or 1h and board, mail armour at 40, decent CC and AoE.. the full package. They dont stand out from the crowd at anything but aren't lacking in any area either.

Hunters are great solo, as are warlocks, but I have never felt too comfortable with a class that cannot heal themselves if your original tactics go wrong.. Its always a very long walk from the nearest GY.

My alts a hunter, so is his.. and hers.. and his.. and his too, oh and she just rolled a hunter.

[Krald]

If you're feeling weak at level 11, you could probably use a new weapon.

[oramac]

seeing as you're horde now, go with the hunter. if you feel like coming to the light, roll a pally. :D i have a 49 pally atm and have not found anything that i cant handle in the quest log as long as its orange or below. i've even surprised myself by soloing a red quest once or twice. granted it took some good armor and a TON of luck, but with heals and plate, you can survive most anything.

[Wintrow]

It is only as my Druid is reaching L40 that I am approaching the goodness you get with tearing through opponents in cat form, heal when done, switch to bear in case of trouble. Healing Focus and Frenzied Regeneration really help in this...
I am specced feral up untill Feline Swiftness/Feral Charge and then resto up to Tranquil Spirit, going for Nature's Swiftness and Swiftmend...

As Durakk said, i never feel comfortable playing a class that can't heal itself when the excrement hits the ventilation device.
But a Hunter can: Feign Death to clear aggro and then Mend Pet to keep that alive.
A Warlock can drain-tank and sac the Voidy IF he has adequate talents (Fel Concentration is a must for draining).